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Chartres, south side, right--"Bay of the Confessors"

JAMB Figures

Right side

• St. Avitus, abbot of Micy [added at porch construction].

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Ativus #TCS-photo #cathedral #Right #south side #unrestored

Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.

TYMPANUM

• Job, scrapes self with potshard on dunghill while the satan torments him, three friends and wife. God watches from above.

LINTEL

Solomon judges the two women and the baby; servant draws sword to slay child on the far left. Those on the right are admiring Jews (who ought, one suspects, to be admiring the wisdom of Christ whose wisdom and judgment Solomon prefigures.)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #north side #restored #Right

Chartres, north side, right portal.

JAMB Figures
Right:
• Jesus ben Sirach, standing on the temple whose reconstruction was wrongly attributed to him;
• Judith, standing on dog as symbol of fidelity;
• Joseph who was sold into Egypt, standing on Potipher's wife to whom the devil whispers.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Apocrypha #Chartres #france #Jesus ben Sirach #Joseph son of Jacob #Judith #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #north side #Right

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Second archivolt: life of Gideon

† Gideon offers sacrifice;

Third archivolt: life of Judith (prefiguring Mary)

† Covers head and prays;

• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel (continued from left half of arch).

† Raphael the angel binds Asmodeus (who had been slaying Sarah's husbands);

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #north side #restored #Right

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #Left #night #restored #Right #rose window #west side

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Second archivolt: life of Sampson

† Lion (which Samson slays);

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Samson #TCS-photo #arch #Archivolt #cathedral #lion #north side #restored #Right

Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• First archivolt: Pisces (fish), Gemeni (twins), then 6 angels (not all seen)
• Second archivolt: Aristotle, Dialectic, Cicero, Rhetoric, Euclid, Geometry.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Detail #exterior #liberal arts #Right #west side #zodiac

Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.

TYMPANUM: Detail

• Job, scrapes self with potshard on dunghill while the satan torments him, three friends and wife. God watches from above.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #job #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #north side #Right

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel [right half]

† Raphael the angel binds Asmodeus (who had been slaying Sarah's husbands);

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Tobias #Tobit #arch #Archivolt #cathedral #north side #restored #Right

Chartres, south side, right--"Bay of the Confessors"

ARCHIVOLT - angels and kings

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #Right #south side #unrestored